Cincinnati- Downtown and Museum- October 9th and 10th, 2011

On 10^th (Monday), Daddy had work at the office at Erlanger, KY; so we planned to spend Sunday there at Cincinnati downtown. Sunday, we started quite early in the morning, deciding to visit Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal. We started around 9 and reached about 11 in the morning. There was a beautiful architectural building. Inside there were three museums- Science Museum, History Museum and a Children Museum. They were also featuring two movies in an Omnimax theatre- Hubble and Toronto Ally!  All the museums were wonderful and very interactive with video’s showing the history and story behind most of the stuff showcased.  Omnimax theatre was huge the screen ran from the ground to over my head. The picture/ movie were like real life, the size of objects and people.  And horizontally the screen was till the ends of the maximum my eye balls could rotate from left to right. Hubble is the story about NASA and its mission of correcting the lens/ resolution of the satellite camera capturing pictures of Saturn. Toronto Ally was a story of a person chasing a Toronto in order to capture a picture of it from the center of the Toronto. Both the movies were superb and the effect at the Omnimax theatre was magnificent.

That night we stayed at a Hotel in downtown.  The next day, we all got ready early in the morning. Dad took all the luggage, put them in the car. Then he left for work. Mom and I, stayed in the room a little longer, had coffee and some breakfast. Then we checked out and went out to look around downtown. We got some pamphlets at the hotel about things in and around downtown- restaurants, places to visit, things to do, etc. We found trolley (bus) that travels around downtown, then to Newport, the place where we went last week for a sailing trip on the Ohio River; and on the opposite direction to Covington, some other place in Cincinnati. It was really cold that morning; we went to the fountain square, it’s an open area place where musical events take place; with a lot of chairs and tables; and a fountain in between. We found the trolley standing there; we got in, and came to know it was going towards Newport. It took us for a short trip around that place and then back to fountain square. The driver then told us he was going to Covington and that this circle would keep going on- from Covington to Newport. So we stayed back in the bus, went till Covington and again back to fountain square. That was a nice sightseeing journey.  Downtown routes are quite easy to understand, there all parallel and perpendicular roads /pathways. We walked around the place, the hotel and the fountain square; which is also very close to the hotel, a few cross roads left and right. We saw a lot of tall buildings, went into a public library, and went into big shopping malls-Macy’s and Saks Fifth Ave, really costly shops! Then close to 5 in the evening, we went back to the hotel, sat in the lobby, waiting for dad to return back from office. Then dad came around 5.30 and we reached back home at 7pm.

Again one good weekend!